Category Archives: Publishing

On Academic Labour and Reviewing for Journals (again)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Piece at The Chronicle, via Path to the Possible.

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3quarksdaily Philosophy blog prize

Posted on October 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Worth reading the whole piece, with the introduction by judge Justin Smith which thinks about the status of blogs as a form of philosophical writing. Justin E. H. Smith has picked the three winners: Top Quark, $1000: Wesley Buckwalter, Factive Verbs … Continue reading →

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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading →

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Social and Cultural Geography – new editor applications

Posted on September 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Social & Cultural Geography, published by Taylor and Francis, is a leading journal in its field, publishing original, high calibre, scholarly articles on the spatialities of society and culture.  After several years as an editor, Lily Kong has decided to … Continue reading →

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Revise and resubmit – what it means and doesn’t mean

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Revise and resubmit. This decision from journals has recently been discussed on the New APPS blog, and Peter Gratton has responded here. Here is my take on this – this refers to no specific case, but is the product of … Continue reading →

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Antipode book reviews to be open access

Posted on September 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Book reviews in Antipode have been made available open access, and all new book reviews will appear on the Antipode Foundation site instead of the print/online journal. More details and links to two recent reviews here. Society and Space has … Continue reading →

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Sean Sturm on writing and productivity

Posted on September 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Sean Sturm has posted a very good short article on writing, with lots of good references. You can access the full piece here, and do check out his blog Te Ipu Pakore.

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Chasing Dragons on Peer Review; and ReviewmyReview

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

At Chasing Dragons, some more thoughts on peer review. It also links to ReviewmyReview, a site compiling data on average review times and acceptance rates for key journals in Political Science. Interesting reading, though I’d have liked to have seen … Continue reading →

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Two pieces on peer review

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

One in The Times Higher Education; the other in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (requires subscription). The second is a wide-ranging piece with a lot of interesting points that go far beyond the specialist field the journal serves. I … Continue reading →

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Self Organized Seminar – links and files

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

This site has a lot of resources – some links and some files of questionable provenance. It includes a complete pdf of my book Understanding Henri Lefebvre for instance.

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